The first Chief Petty
Officers Club on Yokosuka Naval Base was in
Building H-83 located in the area of the new
Middle School. It had been used by the
Imperial Japanese Navy as a gymnasium for
Judo and Fencing, it remained the CPO Club
from 1945 until it was destroyed by fire in
1949. Three months later H-43, (where JRNOC
is currently located) which previously had
been a galley and dining area for the
Imperial Japanese Navy shipyard workers, was
remodeled into a CPO Club. It remained so
until 1978 when it was also gutted by fire.

The Chiefs Club then moved to
the old Seaside Club Building J-201 and
utilized the Bar Area as the CPO Club until
the completion of the Arleigh Burke Officers
Club when they moved into the Chain Locker.

The current CPO Club,
Building B-39, was completed sometime in
1927 in which the Japanese Imperial Navy
used first for offices of the Shipyard
Superintendent and later as a Supply
Office. At the end of World War Two, the
Occupation Forces continued to use it as
Supply Offices until 1949 when it was
renovated and remodeled into a recreation
facility for Petty Officers below the grade
of Chief Petty Officer. The Petty Officers
Club closed in 1982 with the opening of the
new Club Alliance at the Main Gate.

In 1982, CNFJ Force Master
Chief, SKCM Jim Berry, realized that the
Chain Locker in the Officers Club was not
working out and convinced CNFJ and CFAY to
relocate the CPO Club to B-39. The inside
was renovated and the current CPO Club
opened for business in 1983.